State Industrial Accident Commission v. Eggiman

This is an appeal by the plaintiff, the State Industrial Accident Commission, from a judgment for the defendant entered in this action which was instituted by the commission for the purpose of recovering from the defendant, the alleged employer of Leonard Johnson, $1,096.85, being the sum which the plaintiff paid to Johnson on account of an injury which he suffered while helping to fell a tree upon land owned by the defendant..

It is agreed that the defendant had not notified the plaintiff, prior to Johnson’s injury, that he (defendant) elected not to contribute to the industrial accident fund…